Oliver Hartkopp wrote: > Wolfgang Grandegger wrote: >> Hello, >> >> there was a demand to move from svn to git from Marc and Sebastian. I >> also believe, that git would save some maintenance work, mainly because >> patches could be prepared and applied more easily to the trees used for >> development. Here are my ideas: >> >> - I would like to keep the out-of-tree code we have currently under SVN >> mainly because backward compatibility with older kernels is a really >> useful feature, not only for development but also for the real users. >> Maintaining a full git tree with that backward compatibility is much >> more work, I believe. >> >> - Move the SVN kernel/2.6/ tree to git, without the "old" drivers >> and plus strip-src. >> >> - Move the SVN can-utils to a separate git tree. >> >> - Abandon the SVN repository. We keep it, of course, also for support of >> 2.4, but we should not spend time for updates. > > Looks good.
OK, but where should we host it. At kernel.org we have the problem of sharing write access to the GIT repository. I'm also thinking that more people than you and me could have write access to maintain there driver(s). What do you think. Wolfgang. _______________________________________________ Socketcan-core mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/socketcan-core
